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ASSYRIANS, TURKS DEMONSTRATED IN SWEDEN AS COUNCIL VOTED ON GENOCIDE MONUMENT
Assyrian International News Agency AINA
Jan 31 2014
Posted 2014-01-31 20:25 GMT
Botkyrka municipal council meeting.Stockholm (AINA) -- Assyrians
and Turks held demonstrations outside the municipal building of
Botkyrka, a small town approximately 20 KM southwest of Stockholm,
as the municipal council met yesterday to consider the proposal made
by Assyrian groups to erect a genocide monument. According to the
Swedish Assyrian online magazine Hujada, the council rejected the bid
to fund the monument but offered to provide land for the monument if
it would be funded privately.
The proposal was submitted to the council by the Assyrian Genocide
Research Center.
Fehmi Barkarmo, who submitted the proposal, informed the council the
Assyrians in the municipality would submit a new proposal under the
new decision. "Our starting point is that it should be municipally
owned land," Barkarmo told Hujada.
The proposed monument would honor the victims of the Turkish Genocide
of Assyrians in World War One, between 1915 and 1918, which claimed
the lives of 750,000 Assyrians (75%), as well as 500,000 Pontic Greeks
and 1.5 million Armenians.
The Assyrian demonstration was organized by the Assyrian Genocide
Research Center with the support and participation of Assyria Cultural
Centre in Botkyrkavagen, Assur Society in Fittja, Assyrian Cultural
Association of Botkyrkavagen, Inanna Family Association, Assyrian Youth
Federation, the Assyrian Women's League and the Assyrian Federation.
View photos at http://www.aina.org/news/20140131142534.htm
Assyrian International News Agency AINA
Jan 31 2014
Posted 2014-01-31 20:25 GMT
Botkyrka municipal council meeting.Stockholm (AINA) -- Assyrians
and Turks held demonstrations outside the municipal building of
Botkyrka, a small town approximately 20 KM southwest of Stockholm,
as the municipal council met yesterday to consider the proposal made
by Assyrian groups to erect a genocide monument. According to the
Swedish Assyrian online magazine Hujada, the council rejected the bid
to fund the monument but offered to provide land for the monument if
it would be funded privately.
The proposal was submitted to the council by the Assyrian Genocide
Research Center.
Fehmi Barkarmo, who submitted the proposal, informed the council the
Assyrians in the municipality would submit a new proposal under the
new decision. "Our starting point is that it should be municipally
owned land," Barkarmo told Hujada.
The proposed monument would honor the victims of the Turkish Genocide
of Assyrians in World War One, between 1915 and 1918, which claimed
the lives of 750,000 Assyrians (75%), as well as 500,000 Pontic Greeks
and 1.5 million Armenians.
The Assyrian demonstration was organized by the Assyrian Genocide
Research Center with the support and participation of Assyria Cultural
Centre in Botkyrkavagen, Assur Society in Fittja, Assyrian Cultural
Association of Botkyrkavagen, Inanna Family Association, Assyrian Youth
Federation, the Assyrian Women's League and the Assyrian Federation.
View photos at http://www.aina.org/news/20140131142534.htm